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Ontario notched a new single-day peak in COVID-19 cases on Saturday just as the province implemented a new colour-coded assessment system that one public health unit rejected as too lenient.

TORONTO — Police say a 12-year-old boy is in critical condition and a 17-year-old has life-threatening injuries after a daylight shooting in Toronto's north end.

MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault is urging residents to stay united and maintain their efforts to keep COVID-19 at bay with the tougher winter months around the corner.

The crimes of a 24-year-old man who, one by one, slit the throats of his entire family to protect his secret double life are "deeply disturbing," an Ontario judge said Friday as she sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 year

TORONTO — Health-care advocates criticized the Ontario government Friday for not providing any funding details in the provincial budget for a major pledge to improve long-term care, saying the promise will require significant investment.

TORONTO — Peel Region will be under the highest COVID-19 alert level short of a lockdown as Ontario shifts to a tiered and colour-coded system for managing pandemic measures, though the restrictions it will face fall short of what local health offici

TORONTO — The trial of a man who killed 10 people when he drove a van down a Toronto sidewalk starts next week by Zoom and will be streamed for the public at a convention centre.

MONTREAL — The number of new COVID-19 cases in Quebec topped 1,000 for the third straight day Friday, but a provincial public health institute says the province's hospitals are not expected to be overwhelmed over the next four weeks.

WHITCHURCH–STOUFFVILLE, Ont. — Police say a horse has been reunited with its owner after officers stopped it from ambling down a highway in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Peel police say a teen from Mississauga, Ont., is facing child pornography charges after a joint investigation by local police, the RCMP and the FBI.